Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-01

THE news of the serious and perhaps
fatal illness of the Ameer of Afghanistan
has aroused Russian and English cupidity
once more in connection with that coun-
try.
MRS. HENRY WARD BEEcHER has made
arrangements to receive Rev. DR.. Parker,
of London, on his arrival in New York on
the Umbria, which will probably be on the
9th.
YANK McCARTY, a prominent citizen and
ex-sheriff of Hooking County, O., died on
the morning of the 22d from the effects of
O. dose of morphine taken with supposed
suicidal intent.
JOHN ANDERSEN, bartender in Billy
Thompson's restaurant at Gloucester, n.
J., received word on the night of the 23d
that by the death of his mother in Copen-
hagen he is heir to 100000.
IT is claimed a natural flow of both oil
and gas has been discovered near Fort
Smelling, MINI. It is said that oil comes to
the surface in such quantities that it can
easily be gathered in the crude state.
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THE Russian Prince Pierre Wittgenstein
died at Denlon, near Brest, of grief for
his wife, the daughter of a Breton fisher.
man, whom he had educated. He leaves
his vast fortune to Princess Hohenlohe.
A FLOATING exhibition of Spanish prod
nets will shortly leave Valencia for South
America and will visit all the principaI
South American seaports. The object is
to open up new markets for Spanish goods
ARCHIBALD FORBES, the well-known
war correspondent, who was to lecture in
this country next fall, has cabled his man.
ager, ]. B. Pond, that his health is wrecked
hot oil Of hiS mrs he
cancelled.
THE sale of one thousand-mile tickets,
suspended when the Interstate Commerce
act went into force, has been resumed by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The
rate is twenty dollars, the same prevailing
before the suspension.
Hon. Mr.. LARIvIERE, Provincial Secre-
tary and member of the Government of
Manitoba, who is in Montreal, says that
the provincial government are determined
to build the Red River Valley railway at
any cost and in spite of all opposition.
TIE government of New South Wales
having offered 10000 acres of land to any
missionary society that will undertake to
civilized the natives, the Pope has directed
that immediate attention be paid to the
offer in order to forestall Protestant socie-
ties.
GENERAL JOHN C. BLACK, Commissioner
of Pensions, is reported to be quite ill with
inf1ammatory rheumatism at the residence
of Hon. Stilson Hutchins, at Weir, n. II.
Heis there as the guest of the New Hamp-
shire veterans. Three physicians have
been in attendance.
JUDGE KUMLER, of the Cincinnati Court
o. Common Pleas, has granted a manda-
mus on the application of the Union Labor
party, directing the Board of Elections to
hereafter recognize the Union Labor party
in making appointments of clerks, regis
trars and judges of election.
A GENERAL court martial has been ap-
pointed to meet at Washington Barracks,
d. c., on Monday, August %, to try
cond-Lieutenant J. W. Weber for neg
lect of duty and disobedience of orders in
the work of the signal service, upon
charges preferred by General Greedy.
MAYOR HEwIrr of New York is de-
termined to enforce the provisions of the
t'fire-escape" law passed by the Legisla-
ture last winter. He has instructed the
corporation counsel to prosecute all hotel
keepers who failed to place a rope long
enough to reach the ground in each room
of the house.
DAVID OKEY, of the Mercantile Marine
division of the Treasury Department, who
has been appointed by Secretary Fair
child to examine into the methods of the
Board of immigration of the port of New
York, presented his credentials to Collect
or Magone ON the 22d and had a long
consultation with him.
ACTING LAND COMMISSIONER Stock.
sLAGER has taken the necessary steps to
carry into effect Secretary Lamar's order
incv ion To md
entry of the unimproved indemnity selec-
tion of the California & Oregon Railroad
Company in California. This will affect
some 1000 acres of land.
THE preparations for the celebration of
= the Pope's jubilee will begin at Rome in
September on an extensive scale. Among
the features of the celebration will be an
exhibition, which will be formally opened
in the presence of the Pope, Dom Pedro,
IL, Emperor of Brazil, and the ENJOYS of
all the sovereigns of Europe.
PROF. II. s. WHITNEY. of the Excelsior
academy, on the shore of Lake Minneton-
ka, was drowned in the lake on the 18th.
Three children were playing On a raft
which went to pieces, and he, swimming
out to save them, became tangled in the
weeds and was drowned. Two of the
children were rescued alive, the third was
drowned.
THE Aurora, the largest wooden vessel
on the great chain of lakes, was launched
at Cleveland, o., on the 23d. Her beam
is Al % feet; length $40 feet, and depth
&c IL feet. She is equipped with a 1000
horse power, double cylinder engine and
steam wheel weighing four tons. She was
built for the ore trade and is owned at
Cleveland.
DOUGLAS F. CARLIN, chief clerk at the
Cheyenne agency, was married on the
26th to Maiden Duprest, the wealthiest
Indian heiress on the Sioux reservation.
Carlin is closely connected with prominent
army officers, and with the Carlins of
Illinois. Over one thousand Indians wit
messed the ceremony and the festivities
will last three days.
THE Thistle crew continues hard at
work getting the yacht into racing trim.
The mammoth spinnaker boom, which
Captain Barr says is seventy feet long,
wa, lowed out from the storage dock,
hauled aboard and scraped down on the
22d. It is expected th1t the Thistle will
be ready for her first sail in her racing
gear by the end of the week.
PAyuAsTER WATKINS, United States
Navy, has been sentenced to three years
imurisonment at hard labor. During his
IMPRISONMENT he is to receive one-half
furIough pay, and at the expiration OF his
sentence will be dismissed from the serv-
ice. Watkins was tried on board his ship,
the Ossipee, at Yokohama, and found
guilty of fraud, endorsement, desertion
and other offensss.